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my name is Alex Radzishevsky and this is my homepage. I update it when time permits.

You will not find me on facebook et al. I prefer a little more old-school means of human communication – email, chat, Fidonet, IRC, phone call, or meeting in person. It is way better than burning time for nothing in the pseudo-social networks. And fortunately, I do have better things to do in my life.

If you want to communicate with me, you can simply drop me a line by email. If you just want to learn a bit about me, you can find here all the information that I decided to share with strangers. If you came across for professional purposes, you can look at my LinkedIn profile. In case you just want to see some of my photos, you can find plenty of them in the photo-album, which I update from time to time.

Several years ago I almost totally switched to Skype (from ICQ/Miranda). We also use Skype at work as the main communication tool between two offices.

During last 3 years I notice that communication via Skype is getting worse and worse. I’m not talking about voice quality, I’m talking about simple delivery of messages. Due to some reason (probably due to peer-to-peer Skype’s nature), I see my messages cannot be delivered to a person appearing online. It’s sometimes funny to see that two computers in one room can “see” some contact online, but with only one of them it’s possible to communicate normally with the contact. Funny, pity and annoying at the same time.

Additionally, instead of getting better in terms of GUI, Skype becomes uglier from year to year. I express my personal opinion and experience, but I hear the same notes of disappointment from time to time here and there.

aradzish@ubuntu:~/Desktop/linux$ ./awt2_gui-bin
bash: ./awt2_gui-bin: No such file or directory

What??? WTF?

I immediately discussed this issue with someone experienced in Linux and I was told that it’s natural since the program I try to run uses 32-bit libraries, and that I need to install a special package ‘ia32-libs’ to be able running 32-bit applications. So I did, I run

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
and got my app working.

Now tell me, do you seriously think that normal user can know this? Do you seriously think that with all this crap Linux is really ‘user-friendly’?

P.S. I was additionally told that Ubuntu is the least crap of all existing Linux craps… Funny, huh?

I know many people suffer of suddenly disappearing spectral view in Adobe Audition 2 and 3. Here the workaround to solve this problem (found here)

Valid for AA2 and AA3.

Since this problem is related to the audition_settings.xml file, I found this workaround to solve the problem in AA spectral frequency view; note that it’s a workaround, it doesn’t solve the root cause of the problem.